News

May '08


We will be exhibiting here from the 3rd to the 11th May, 2008.
We will be in the traditional build area, next to Lime Plastering and Stawbale Building. Come and say hello.

February '07
GreenSpec is the UK construction industry's definitive guide to sustainable construction, and they have published a great little case study on Growing.org - Hand-made cob in Stoke Newington.

October '06
Growing.org celebrated its first published article. We are featured in the 'Something Old, Something New' article, which appears in the Sept/Oct issue of Resource magazine - back issues available here .

September '06
Guy recently spent some time at the Low Impact Living Initiative (Lili) in Bucks learning more about round timber construction and straw bale building. We hope to incorporate both these techniques into hybrid houses in the future.

In the meantime. Harriet and Clement went green in Ireland at The Hollies, a sustainable living centre which hosts various courses, many of them cob-related. They completed a course covering all aspects of cob, run by Ianto Evans (of Cob Cottage Company and co-author The Handsculpted House). They also spent two days on a cookstove course, exploring the methods used to build bread ovens, lorena cookstoves, rocket stoves and the rumford fireplace.

Clement in a 'cob toss' (above) Harriet working on a garden wall (below). Both taken at The Hollies

Garden wall arches